The Declaration of Sentiments

Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments

~3 days to write declaration~format the same way as the Declaration of Independence, but blame husbands instead of the King~68 women and 32 men signed declaration ~1/4 Quaker ~Frederick Douglass was only African-American~Stanton's idea f right for women to vote

Claiming Rights

As stated in the Declaration of Sentiments, women had been denied rights that men were given.

·Women did not have right to vote o“He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.”

· Married women became under the control of their husband

o“He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law civilly dead.”

·Husband has control of the profits wife earns and property

o“He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.”

·Husband is wife's master, compared to slavery

o“promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master—the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty and to administer chastisement.”

· Women in domestic sphere of household duties and childcare. When divorced, husband gains control of children.·Women were denied an equal education.